"Collectives Hijack Polar Company Trucks in Caracas, Protest Hoarding"

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The economic initiatives include changes to the country’s multi-tiered exchange rate, an increase in the domestic price of gasoline, the implementation of a new tax system, and expansion of community control over food distribution.

Caracas, February 18th 2016 (venezuelanalysis.com) - A whole packet of new economic initiatives will take effect in Venezuela this week after the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, announced a series of far-reaching measures in response to the economic crisis on Wednesday evening.
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Pardoned crimes include “violence or resistance to authority”, “arson”, “damage to property”, “damage to the national electrical system”, “military rebellion”, “damage to transport systems, public services”, “incitement to hate”, “destruction or deterioration of roads”, among numerous others.

“This amnesty law confesses that since 1999 the opposition has committed insurrectional acts and we have lived under a permanent state of coup,” said PSUV legislator, Pedro Cedeño.

Caracas, February 17, 2016 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela’s opposition-majority National Assembly approved the controversial Amnesty and National Reconciliation Law in first discussion yesterday, which could exonerate dozens convicted of various crimes over the last seventeen years, including th…
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"Operation Attack on the Weevil"

Caracas, February 17, 2016 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan authorities arrested 55 employees of the Abastos Bicentenario state supermarket chain Monday in the initial phase of a new anti-corruption operation aimed at the government-run food distribution network.
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